While the essence of discrimination is that a person is treated less favourably than a person of the opposite sex would be treated in a similar situation, there is no specific definition of discrimination.

Groups vulnerable to discrimination

21. Action to combat discrimination

And understand something essential about discrimination!

Protection of women against any act of discrimination

The right to non discrimination

But then, when we do, we're discriminated against.

Social condition is a prohibited ground of discrimination in the Act.

There is no easy way to distinguish between the two transactions.

He alleges that he has been discriminated against because he is an elderly immigrant.

Patients' families were the victim of discrimination and ostracism from the local community.

The prohibition of organizations that promote and incite racial discrimination and The prohibition of the dissemination of ideas based on racial superiority or hatred

It had reason to hope that discrimination in South Africa had come to an end.

It is clear that they remain subject to discrimination and unequal treatment.

We ain't gonna have no time to pick and choose our targets when we do!

The Saskatchewan Human Rights Code does not contain social condition as a prohibited ground of discrimination, but it has contained receipt of public assistance as a prohibited ground since 1993.

All three filed complaints alleging that they were discriminated against on the basis of handicap.

However, in practice women are discriminated against in several ways.

Indeed many continued to be deprived of their basic rights and freedoms. They are discriminated against and were not making socio economic progress.

Education is an investment in the future, a means to reduce poverty and counter discrimination

Conscientious objectors were another target of discrimination.

Though still enchanted, the islands took on more recognizable shapes,

They have been subject to state sanctioned discrimination and human rights violations.

There are no alternative words to distinguish between things relating to the United States or to the Americas.

Article 3. of this Law provides the basic definition of discrimination

Those two elements would end discrimination against the Puerto Rican population.

Anti discrimination legislation also applied if the victim was a foreigner.

They were sometimes viewed with suspicion by their neighbours and consequently suffered doubly from discrimination and marginalization.

The role of civil society organizations in identifying and publicizing anti discrimination doctrines

Women foresters in mid career reported past examples of gender based discrimination, although younger women did not report any direct discrimination.

It also expresses concern at the discrimination practised against children with disabilities.

My mental health status had been a catalyst for discrimination, verbal abuse, and physical and sexual assault, and I'd been told by my psychiatrist,

As such, it is extensively studied as a means to discriminate between competing theories.

to make a distinction between the unclean and the clean, and between the living thing that may be eaten and the living thing that may not be eaten.'

To make a difference between the unclean and the clean, and between the beast that may be eaten and the beast that may not be eaten.

However, ignorance on equality of rights by women is the major factor of discrimination of women.

In its previous concluding comments, the Committee recommended that specific anti discrimination legislation be introduced.

The Government is currently also giving attention to sex discrimination under Customary Law.

Moreover, the absence of a legal definition of discrimination gave rise to discriminatory practices.

This put an end to work discrimination based on weight in the state of California.

It is also used to distinguish between religious authority (for example Canon law) and secular authority.

The Constitution forbids discrimination against women, but it does not establish a legal definition of discrimination.

The Committee notes with concern that no clear definition of racial discrimination exists in domestic legislation.

It also recommends that full attention be paid to the possible existence of indirect discrimination, which is prohibited under the Convention.

Concerned that persons with disabilities face discrimination and may be affected by multiple discrimination,